Sunday, January 29, 2012

5 Dresden Dolls library ninja gig tweets by YOU

List by Tosca

"All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!"- Thomas Carlyle

Friday. Wow. Friday. I can't thank Auckland people enough for Friday. Most certainly I cannot thank Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione enough, either. Friday afternoon's library ninja gig at Central City Library was everything I wanted it to be and then some. (I often tell people that my idea of customer service is built on that idea - you give customers what they want, and then you give them something they didn't know they wanted, and the ninja gig was a lot like that). I get such a buzz out of live music. You hear a song, or a group and you listen to them enough that you know every single lyric by heart. You know where to pause, which words to put emphasis on, how to vocally (and emotionally, too) build the song up to this moment of great intensity...and then let it fade away. And start it all over again. Know what I mean? It's a beautiful thing but, let's be honest, it's nothing compared to hearing it live and in your face and, for a little bit there when Amanda Palmer crowdsurfed a seated audience, literally over your head, too. And right then you're shocked out of your musical complacency and you remember why you adore the drama and the theatricality of a group such as the Dresden Dolls, and the words of their songs combined with the outright fun-ness of it all make it that much more real and special. Gah *flails*

I could go on and on about how fantastic it all was (you know I could), but I'm not going to. Instead I've rounded up some tweets that floated across our stream that capture the mood and the feeling of the library gig so much better than I could on any given day. You know that moment when everything comes together and you have the right band, the right crowd and life is good-fantastic-I'm-gonna-be-smiling-for-days? That. So much that. THANK YOU, Auckland, for sharing all of that with us. And, just quietly, thanks Corin (Manager Digital Services, Auckland Libraries) for arranging the library ninja gig. Tres cool, boss man, tres cool :P And thank you to those who allowed me to highlight their tweets :)

good idea, Kellly M! Saw Amanda Palmer posted a pic on her blog of the Neil Gaiman books at Unity bookshop. If @neilhimself aka Neil Gaiman reads this and wants to know if Auckland Library has any of this books, the search URL ishttp://search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/?q=author%3A%22Gaiman%2C%20Neil.%22(or enter into search prompt: author:"Gaiman, Neil." )

@Lin - thank you so much for reading/commenting! Was reviewing my own vid footage of the gig and it's not really usable. Heads keep popping up in it in odd places and there's lots of squealing and screaming and laughing. But oh, I wouldn't undo it for anything :) I thought it was just the greatest thing ever that Brian and Amanda were happy just hanging out for a bit afterward and talking with people and just, you know, chilling. It was so cool. So very, very awesome.

@Aimee - I almost *did* cry and I was there :) It was...gah it was one of the most fun-nest things I've ever done in a library. I could oh so easily do something like it again.